To boldly go ... (Star Trek)

[Karl Henning]

I liked it but can't remember why.  I think it was because I had sympathy for Adonais when he lost his power.  As if he didn't know he was a con.  I also like when the hot guest star of the week truly develops feelings for the antagonist.  Same thing happened in Space Seed.

Good points.

[Number Six]

No, I looked it up. He wanted a million dollars. So they said no due to the limited budget of the show, and then yes on the huge budget of the movie. Most of the other cast just didn't want to appear on the show. They thought their characters would be killed off.

https://thealphaquadrant.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-Why-didnt-William-Shatner-ever-appear-in-Star-Trek-TNG-like-DeForest-and-Nimoy-did-Kirk-wasn-t-not

That sounds about right. 

[LKB]

I liked it but can't remember why.  I think it was because I had sympathy for Adonais when he lost his power.  As if he didn't know he was a con.  I also like when the hot guest star of the week truly develops feelings for the antagonist.  Same thing happened in Space Seed.

If Leslie Parrish ( as she was at the time ) truly developed feelings for me, I'd probably retire from Olympus on the spot.

[Karl Henning]

That sounds about right. 

I have sufficient confidence in the writers that they would have found a story to treat Kirk with reasonable deference. The "Relics" episode with Scotty is quite touching. And it's hard to imagine TNG without Sarek and Spock. Shatner by then must have been a sufficiently wealthy man that demanding $1 million was less any matter of need and more a kind of gesture. A pity. I want to think better of Shatner.

[Karl Henning]

My sister told me a funny story just this morning. Her Girl Scout troop went on a field trip to New York, the taping of one of the game shows. One of the celebrity hosts was Wm Shatner, of whom she was completely starstruck. In her naiveté, she asked him for an autograph. Shatner was a perfectly rude boor to her. And at that fresh age, my sister "gave as good as [she] got." As a result of this mini-scene, the management asked her to leave. Which meant that the entire troop had to leave. So there was the embarrassment, the money wasted by all on the trip, and then the characteristic non-understanding from our late father. So that was the end of my sister's starstruck days.I think all the better of her for pushing back at a prima donna. Truly, she boldly went where no Girl Scout had gone before.

[relm1]

You might enjoy this, Wil Weaton's comical bit about meeting his hero, Shatner during the first season of TNG.  This might explain part of why he never did a guest appearance. He just didn't like the show.

[Karl Henning]

I remember at least something about most episodes. I'm mortified that I had completely forgotten "The Doomsday Machine" with Wm Windom channeling Ahab.

[LKB]

I remember at least something about most episodes. I'm mortified that I had completely forgotten "The Doomsday Machine" with Wm Windom channeling Ahab.

A longtime favorite episode, l think l saw it first as a summer rerun on NBC. It's also one of the few TOS episodes which gained significantly ( imho ) from the digital effects remastering in its blu-ray release.

[relm1]

I remember at least something about most episodes. I'm mortified that I had completely forgotten "The Doomsday Machine" with Wm Windom channeling Ahab.

That is a great episode, very exciting!  I love how Ahab keeps rearing his head in the series like in Khan.

[LKB]

That is a great episode, very exciting!  I love how Ahab keeps rearing his head in the series like in Khan.

Or Picard, for that matter, in First Contact.

[relm1]

Or Picard, for that matter, in First Contact.

And Malcom MacDowell (forgot the character's name) in Generations who is obsessed with the nexus to the point that it kills millions.